Why Should We Believe In God?
If we have no faith in God, we
will be born again and again in this world and will undergo considerable
miseries. The ignorant, faithless, doubting self goes to destruction. He cannot
enjoy the least happiness. Neither this world, nor that beyond is there for the
doubting self. Those who have no faith in God do not know what is right and
what is wrong. They have lost the power of discrimination. They are untruthful,
proud and egoistic. They are given to excessive greed, wrath and lust. They
hoard up money by unlawful means. They become men of demoniacal nature. They
commit various sorts of atrocious crimes. They have no ideals for their lives.
They are thrown into the lowest depths, deluded, birth after birth.
Belief in God is an
indispensable requisite for every human being. It is a sine qua non.
Owing to the force of Avidya or ignorance pain appears as pleasure. The world
is full of is full of miseries, troubles, difficulties and tribulations. The
world is a ball of fire. The mind charged with attachment, hatred, anger,
jealousy, is a blazing furnace. We have to free ourselves from birth, death,
old age, disease and grief. This can only be done by faith in God. There is no
other way. Money and power cannot give us real happiness. Even if we exercise
suzerainty over whole world, we cannot be free from care, worry, anxiety, fear,
disappointment, etc. It is only the faith in God and the consequent
God-realisation through meditation that can give us real, eternal happiness and
free us from all kinds of fear and worries which torment us at every moment.
Faith in God will force us to think of Him constantly and to meditate on Him
and will eventually lead us on to God-realisation.
Belief in God and
God-realisation will give us Param Shanti (Supreme Peace). In that peace comes
the extinction of all pains. We will be no longer bewildered. We will be
released from the bondage of actions. We will become immortal. We will obtain
eternal Divine Wisdom. We will reach a place whence there is no return to this
world of miseries, our sins being dispelled by Divine Wisdom. Our minds will
ever remain balanced. We will never rejoice on obtaining what is pleasant nor
feel sorry on obtaining what is unpleasant. We will have a cool mind. We will
be ever established in the Divine Consciousness. We will get 'Akshaya Sukha,'
'happiness exempt from decay.' We will become one with God and get eternal
(Nitya), infinite (Ananta), supreme bliss. When we are established in the
Divine Consciousness, we will not be shaken even by heavy sorrow. We will get
'Atindriya Sukha,' 'happiness beyond the reach of the senses.'
God will give us full security
if we worship Him with unswerving devotion and undivided attention. He gives us
the Yoga of discrimination to enable us to reach Him easily. Out of pure
compassion for us He destroys the ignorance born darkness by the shining lamp
of Wisdom. He speedily lifts us from the ocean of Samsara (birth and death), if
we fix our minds on Him steadily with devotion and faith. We will cross over
the three qualities and liberated from birth, death, old age and sorrow, and
drink the nectar of immortality. By devotion and faith we will know Him in
essence and will enter into His very Being. Through His Grace we will overcome
all obstacles.
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Raja Yoga- God Exists by Swami Sivananda
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